I wouldn’t like to live in America they are brainwashed into thinking that America is the greatest country in the world,when in reality it’s nowhere near the best country in the world
Because they are brainwashed as soon as they go to school e.g having to repeat the pledge of alliegance every day in school, similar to repressive countries around the world.
If you ever go to europe, travel between the capitals on trains... Its awesome! No luggage restrictions, train stations are in the city, airports tend to be an hour outside of them.
A rich country is not a country where poor people drive around in cars they can't afford, but a country where rich people uses public transport, because it's conveniant
@@meganoikz This is said by someone who prefers to continue polluting the air by car but has never sat in a modern means of public transportation, this answer shows your very ignorant and naive way about it
I am from the Netherlands and I sold my car two years ago. I took a subscription to a car share company for when I need a car. And as far as the weather goes when you have to cycle about 250 Km’s a week, there is not such a thing as bad weather, there is only bad clothing 😂
I took my bike everywhere in Denmark. Even in December i would be out on it shopping in a bigger city. And often biked through snow blowing right in my face. So always had eyebrows full of ice and snow and people i knew found it crazy that i went out in weather like that. But we all do that here. Weather can do what it wants as long as cows aren't flying about we're out in it... 😅
@@danfarrik "Bicycle when the weather allows.".. Great, but not the exact same as the Dutch experience. As the op said: no bad weather (only bad kleather..). If some don't make it to work or school, that's too bad. It's our substitute for natural selection 😁
Like everywhere, European governments understand the importance of their economy, but they also have concern for the wellbeing of their people. A NATION is made of people, not businesses. The USA boasts of its' economic wealth, but the only real mark of a nations wealth lies in the quality of its' citizens everyday lives.
Wouldn't that be nice. 20 years ago maybe, sadly the opposite is true today, which is why the EU's, french, brittish and german government are currently breaking appart. The economy is at the brink of destruction, while the majority of people are in debt and crime rates explode, while the governments shove money they don't have (and steal from future generations instead) into bullshit idology projects that reap no benefit.
Highly depends on where they come from. Visa regulations for folks from Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the US are less strict than those of others. My Japanese friends can stay here for 90 days without extra paperwork, just need their passport. Indonesian friends have to apply for a EU visa and additionally the local national visa.
It never fails to amaze me how insular people from the US are and their lack of curiosity about the outside world. It's nice that you're seeking to address that!
I am from Bulgaria. In 2007 I was in Destin Florida for the summer in a student university program. Work and Travel. We all bought bicycles to go to work ( we worked in Big Kahuna water park). The main road coast line was the only big road going through the town and the town spanned along that road. I remember driving my bike back from Walmart with shopping bags and the police stopped me for me driving on the side of the road. I got really sacred at the beginning, thinking what can happend with you, stopped by the police in the USA. Thankfully nothing scary happened. They told me that I wasn't supposed to ride on the side of the road and to go on the pavement , which is unheard of in Europe. You dont drive bike on the pavement where you can hit a pedestrian. May be it makes a bit more sense in US because there are not many people on the sidewalk,only ocasional joggers, I dont know but it was a strange experience. Stopped by a police for riding bike on the road. WTF
I lived and worked in Bulgaria about 2001-5, and visited regularly after then. Your public transport is great in the cities, old but cheap and plentiful, and the coaches to go between Sofia and places like Varna are far better than the old dirty trains. A very interesting country.
@@terryhunt2659 Yeah just like exchange for the summer. Its called Work and Travel. I thought i mentioned it. You get a 6 month visa with the right to work for 3 months and other 3 you can stay, travel , basically spend the money that you have earned. Most university students though work for 3 months. Get a week to travel or do smth fun and then you have to go back for the semester is starting. Some stayed there in the US as immigrants sometimes. Back in the says more often, nowadays almost noone.
If you want to get a better insight how cycling is organized in The Netherlands I recommend the following channels: 'Not Just Bikes' and 'Bicycle Dutch'.
The biggest difference between Europe/UK and the USA is the way the government looks at things. The controlling factor in the European/UK view is the needs of the citizens of those countries. Public transport is there to move people around efficiently. People moving efficiently means a thriving economy. When people cannot move around, the economy is stifled. The same can be said of freight transport. It is why Europe/UK has an extensive rail network and public transport networks. Invest in public transport and the economy will grow. The America model is the reverse of this, they will only build a transport system if the demand is already there. Europe/UK is proactive when it comes to transport whereas Europe the USA is reactive. A classic example of this was the Francis Scott Key Bridge. In Europe/UK as shipping got bigger we put in pier protection to protect our bridges which form parts of the transport network. The USA only put pier protection on new bridges, it left the old ones alone. Now the USA has 1500 bridges that have no pier protection. Again, the USA will not act until it's too late. Whereas Europe/UK has protected all its vulnerable bridges. its also what happens when governments are full of representatives sponsored by the Oil corporations.
You guys are awesome. Never apologise for what you are doing. You are educating yourselves, your fellow Americans and some of us Brits. Keep up the good work, we appreciate it ♥
I travel from Suffolk to London to watch football every weekend. I travel by train because it's about an hour quicker than going by car. Plus it means I can drink
Im currently in Valencia (Spain) and just booked a flight back to the UK on 15 December and it cost me €15.99 at todays exchange rate thats £13.18 or $16.80
When I was at University in Scotland. I got discount for travel. This was prior to Brexit. We started by travelling to Paris for a 2 day stay. Left after breakfast. Brussels (Lunch) , Amsterdam Dinner), Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Lake Balaton, Varazden, Zagreb, Llubnijana, Salzburg, Munich and back to Paris. The rule was we had to stay at a hostel less than $10 per night. The Amsterdam to Berlin train we took overnight to save paying for a place for example. It was 3 weeks of absolute bliss. It restored my faith in humanity with the kindness offered. So the train system is invaluable. Love you both and your channel. Great work 🙏
@@Klojum under $100 is usually for there and back. From Dublin one way flights start from around 15 eur. It's often cheaper to fly to Croatia than drive to other side of the of Ireland
I honestly hope that you and your family get to visit Europe on a Euro Vacation, I know it would blow your minds🤯 when you get to Experience so many cultures from Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, UK, etc 😉👍
@@mariadamen7886 JaJa, but you can understand people being a little confused when your national football team is called Holland. I,ve never seen a Netherlands football scarf.
@@mariadamen7886 Yes it does. "Holland" is simply used as a synonym (of the "pars pro toto" variety). Has been used like that for ages by us Dutchies and foreigners alike.
In Germany, one important issue to notice that the excellent public transport is focused in metropolitan areas. It is not quite as easy in the countryside. There are still bus and train connections out here "in the sticks" , don't get me wrong, but we're talking 2-4 buses per hour during the busiest times (people getting to work/school and back), while in cities/suburbs you are more likely to get buses every 5-10 minutes during peak hours. It is not a perfect, all-encompassing coverage, but a good number of people manage to get by without cars, which is simply awesome.
lol you say that like it's a bad thing, 2 - 4 buses an hour is unheard of in most of the usa. Where i come from the buses were every four minutes into town from our estate, i now live much more rural and yeah they're twice an hour on one route and twice an hour on another, 15 minutes apart which i think is pretty standard for us all really? I'm also a seven minute drive from a rail line that links to a national line after 45 minutes, so that's quite cool. from there i can go pretty much anywhere. The stats on the car parking space being more than residential absolutely blew my mind though.
@@scotmax8426 I did not mean to make anything sound "bad", only to be realistic. To clarify: There is a wide and varied range between not having any decent public transport (like in the U.S.A.) , having bus or tram connections every 5 minutes in many European cities, and having a whole city planned around bicycles and pedestrians where cars are prohibited in central areas, like Groningen (Netherlands). Communities in the U.S.A. could start on a comparatively small scale and would still experience tangible benefits. Public transport is not an all-or-nothing issue, and while the situation in the EU is much better overall, I don't want people to forget that we still have ample room for improvement in rural Europe.
@@At-Dawn-We-Ride Same in Austria, however it depends on the region here. Vienna's transit company always boasts about being very reliable, however, nobody really mentions the times when you have to wait at a bus stop with no shelter in the rain where the bus line has 10min planned intervals, but you end up sometimes waiting 25min before one actually shows up. Happened to me often enough that I just walk two stops where 3 lines stop and get on whichever comes first. Also, when you have to transition between lines, you sometimes need to get lucky that the public transport (be it either tram, metro, train or bus) doesn't leave right as you get to the stop... Then there is also the fact that you have to plan your travel route according to the timetables of public transport, which sometimes can be limiting time and planningwise.
Free acces to state network , i mean bus ,train, etc is free also in Europe. Spain also has low prices for pensioners to go to the beach by bus , eat in a restaurant and sleep in an hotel or hostal .. mainly groups of 30 to 40 pesioners. I mean all included .. It´s called "Imserso". The Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO) is an agency of the Government of Spain responsible for the management of social services that complement the benefits of the Social Security System, disability and retirement pensions, in its non-contributory modalities, as well as the exercise of the powers of the General State Administration in matters relating the elderly and dependent persons. The IMSERSO is categorized as a "Management Entity of the Social Security".
I live in a small village of 34 homes in rural England. We have a daily return bus service to the local towns. I can walk a mile to the nearest main road, where I can get onto the national local bus service that can get me anywhere in the country. From the same bus stop, there is a daily express return bus service to London. From the nearest town I have a train service that can get me to anywhere in the UK and, if I go to London, anywhere in Europe. The road I live on is a small country lane no more than 12'-0" wide, which is a part of the National Cycle network. 150 yds along the road from me, the road is crossed by one of the National long distance footpaths that completely crosses southern England. Yep, we are free, freer than any American. We can go where we want without having to get in a car. We even have a local supermarket that is part of a Petrol filling station that is just 1 mile from my home. That is real freedom. I do have a car and I do use it, but my freedom is the freedom of choice. Also being over 65 I have a government issued bus pass which gives me free travel on the bus's, and even if I didn't have one bus fares are capped at £3
In the US if you discount the bigger cities you can’t walk to the shops, its infrastructure is built on using cars. I live in a smaller town in the UK. I can walk everywhere in my town as the scale of it is much smaller. We don’t have enough parking because towns and cities were planned before cars or at least when there were a lot less cars. The trains came before cars and Europe was already highly populated hundreds of years ago. American larger towns and cities are vast, they cover a huge area and it would cost a fortune to build a transportation system. The houses are built in a separate area that can be a long long way from jobs, shopping and access to medical care etc.
I’ve visited the US many times and, being one of those unable to drive, find it very restrictive if I need to get around. The family house I sometimes visit, although in the suburbs, is 25 miles from its city, has no facilities for public transportation, and it’s extremely expensive to call a cab out or Uber. There isn’t even any sidewalks if I decide to walk to the nearest stores, bars etc - walking across people’s yards or on roads is just weird
That car parking thing is very true! I was looking at Louisville, KY on Google Earth, and was astounded by how far apart the buildings were in the city! When I zoomed in closer, I saw that for each building there was an area four or five times greater that was just for parking! Here in Australia, we hand multi-level carparks so they have a much smaller footprint, in fact, many carparks are within the building’s footprint to conserve land space for more important things. For instance, one of our major shopping malls has 497 stores, with parking for nearly 5000 cars. The parking is on top of the mall and is multi-level, the rest of the property has an entertainment centre with four cinemas, restaurants and cafes throughout the mall as well as on the roof, and many other features that attract people from many suburbs via public transport, both buses and trains, so it’s a major hub in the district. From the air, you can only see the rooftop carparks, but below each one is another three levels of car parking spaces.
As the song goes " they paved paradise and put a parking lot." That's America. Go green ? Rather go asphalt black or concrete gray. Mono Chromatic is far better for the mighty us dollar.
Does it also have underground parking? As in quite a few cities in Austria, parking for cars at a shopping center is usually either underground or a mix of above the shopping center and underground, sometimes with some parking spaces on ground level directly in front.
While I don't disagree with the subject video's general message, I have to say (as a European, specifically a Brit) that the maps used for comparisons are misleading - they mostly are _not_ drawn to similar complexities or for the same purposes.
Mike, I have to tell you this! Aussies love to travel! We travel around our own country because there’s so much to see, do and explore, but we also travel overseas a LOT! We fly to Europe, Asia, the Holy Land, the UK and the US. Lots of Brits migrate to Australia to catch the sunshine and the beaches. A few Americans are living here because they have Aussie partners. But suggest to an American that they should come Down Under, and you’ll get twenty reasons why they can’t. The first reason is “It’s too far!” Well, that’s not a valid excuse because you can drive for 14=hours in the US and still be in the US, but if you fly for those 14 hours, you can be in Sydney! (Just make sure you declare EVERYTHING and don’t lie on your Customs Card), and you can have a great holiday! “It’s too expensive”: We save up for a year or two so we can travel overseas, so it’s a matter of priorities. If you want to travel, save up for it. Or vlog it on RUclips and earn your money that way. You can’t work in Australia on a tourist visa. “Too many deadly animals!” Not unless you go looking for them in the outback without a tour guide. The US has grizzly bears, bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions and other things that can kill you, so again, not an excuse. Attractiveness of Australia? Well for starters, we don’t have guns unless we are licensed to own one for a specific purpose, so there is no risk of being shot. We have 10,000 ocean beaches, many of which are patrolled by lifeguards who watch out for anyone in trouble, make sure everyone is swimming between the red and yellow flags, and will sound the shark alarm if one is spotted. If you’re visiting from a landlocked homeland, don’t go into the water unless you’re a strong swimmer. You can be carried away by a rip if you don’t know what you’re doing , don’t listen to the lifeguards, and if you don’t obey the Warning signs at the beach.
Australians also seem to take long holidays. Every Australian I have met here in Prague says they are staying in Europe for 1 month or longer. Many the whole summer.
In Germany we have the Deutschland Ticket, you can take all public transport in the whole country for about 50€ per month only excluding the two most fast options of trains
CHEAP !!! In Italy...a week by train on a distance of 150 km of railway...is more or less 40 euros... A week ! Not a month ! Unglaublich...i would say....
That was probably me that was shocked about u guys never going on train, it's hard to imagine 😅Here in Hong Kong during peak hours on the main underground lines the large trains arrive and leave every 2 minutes, changing lines is quick & easy, it's super clean & the whole thing is still subsidised post-pandemic so if I spend over a certain amount I get a refund at the end of the month.😅 Funny story, I visited the USA in 2010 & couldn't rent a car (crap Credit Card) & ended up getting myself a month long Greyhound pass, travelled from Miami to New Orleans to do some volunteer work with Habitat, then hopped on & off to Colorado & ended up meeting & driving/camping with some American girls the rest of the way to California through a few states, it was a great trip! Actually met some decent people on the bus 😂 I guess times have changed though.
I’ve visited HK many times and I’ve never needed a cab or been in a car. The transit system is perfect for moving around the island and Kowloon etc and the airport train is so quick getting downtown
Well there is a big difference between an highly dense urban area and a suburban area/small towns. In Europe less than 40 cities have a metro system. Much more than the 16 in the US but the EU alone has 800 cities with more than 50k people (the number is pretty similar to the American one), 120 main cities/metropolitan areas.
Even the USPS has problems transporting mail! I’m in Sydney, Australia and when I order a parcel from the US, once that parcel is in the air, it arrives at Sydney Airport within 24 hours, then it goes through customs, is transported to the mail centre, and I have it within two days of it landing in Sydney. So when I tell you that ordering something from the US can take up to three weeks to get to me, you know it’s not because of the long flight. I track it and it goes to three or four states by road before it even arrives at an airport, then it can sit at the airport for days, waiting to be flown across the US to an airport on the west coast, where it sits again for a week or more! All the while, I’m watching the tracking and I get worried that my parcel got lost, because it arrived at the airport two weeks ago and hasn’t moved! On the other hand, if I send a parcel to the US, it arrives within two weeks including customs and flights as well as road transport.
Since my retirement last March I have taken to cross country walks from my home to neighbouring towns and villages and catching the bus back home, this is free travel for me as a pensioner.
Most people are put off from taking that leap of faith by the thought of leaving family behind. It's more of an excuse not to move than a reason to stay. You've got to put those thoughts behind you and make plans. A move to Europe is a fantastic opportunity for you and your immediate family. Your own parents would most likely wish you well in such an adventure and be happy to see their children living their best life. Remember that life is for living. Having lived in both the USA and here in Uk, I would seriously recommend that you at least consider it.
Yep, the benefits of living a happy life every single day far outweighs missing your family. These days you can catch up with them over video calls anyway so it's not like you're never going to "see" or interact with them again.
We are Aussies who visit Europe every couple of years to attend the TT races at the Isle of Man. We usually spend 6-8 weeks travelling through Europe as it is a long, expensive trip to fly from Australia so we make the most of our trips. When travelling between European countries we had no need for visas but were disappointed we did not get any stamps in our passports to record our visits. On another issue, many cities in Australia have free tram travel within a certain distance from the city centre. Queensland recently introduced a maximum 50 cent cost for travel on their buses, trains & trams.
There are 2 bus routes within 3 minute walk from my house, and the buses arrive every 5 minutes. A regional train station 5 minute walk away, and a mainline one 10 minutes drive. Part of the problem in America is the lack of local shops and other things. We have small shops everywhere. There are 5 within 2 minutes walk from my house, a supermarket within 5 minute walk, and another 4 within 10 minute walk. There are 3 fish and chip shops, an Indian takeaway, a Chinese takeaway within 3 minutes. ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Im the same , bus on the door step , train station 10 mins away , can get to anywhere from Alnwick to York within an hour , 90 mins max , Im from Teesside btw , hello fellow Northerner
You should check out a shorter video of POV Tram ride in any European Country. These Trams go from the outskirts of a city / town and all the way to the inner areas. They are so easy to use, cheap and they take you everywhere. They are also clean and designed well for push chairs and wheelchairs alike.
I’m from the UK 🇬🇧, and have travelled to many EU countries inc Iceland 🇮🇸 which the most unique country I’ve ever seen. The French TGV train is super fast, the German Autobahn doesn’t have a speed limit. Driving through the Italian Dolomites and French Alps is breathtaking. Each EU country is just wonderfully different and the food is amazing. I’ve also enjoyed USA and Canada.
Russia is partially in Europe. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia also span across two continents. The boundary runs from the Turkish Straits, to the Caspian Sea, and then follows the Ural River to the Ural Mountains. 3.9million km2 out of 17.1million km2 of Russia is in Europe. So 23% of Russia is in Europe, and the remaining 77% is in Asia.
I live in London, and I think it's fair to say that as far as the UK goes, the cities have great public transport and cycling infrastructure. But once you get out to the more rural areas, public transport takes a nosedive. In my dad's village out in Berkshire, there's one bus stop which you have to call the bus company to get them to come. The closest train station is around two miles away and trains stop there around once every two hours. London, on the other hand, has several 24-hour bus routes and in recent times, 24-hour Tube/Overground trains in some areas on Fridays and Saturdays.
@ It’s was much better value back in the day, even in the 90s it was basically just the cost of hostels, whatever food your gut could tolerate and whatever you wanted to do.
7:45 Whereas the tiny 1 square mile city centre, in my 141 square mile city *Bradford,* is getting rid of roads completely, so that you'll only be able to drive around the city centre, rather than through it. The traffic was already bad enough, especially at rush hour, but now they've almost finished getting rid of: Jacobs Well. Hall Ings. Market Street. Part of Sunbridge Road. Part of Little Horton Lane. The rest of Broadway. The rest of Bank Street. Most of Bridge Street... Along with adding a new bus lane, and another vehicle sized cycle lane, yet the cycle lanes we already had never get used. Now the traffic is ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that the main bus and train station, which is known as The Interchange, has been closed for most of 2024, because of possible structural problems. However it will reopen soon, as the structural problems weren't as bad as they first thought.
He would only be including a tiny part of Russia in his definition of continental Europe. To illustrate there is a train from Moscow to Vladivostok called the Trans Siberian that takes 7 days (not a fast train). After about 1 day you are no longer in Europe but in Asia. I have friends who live in a city called Yekaterinburg in the Urals which is close to the border of Europe and Asia.
Indeed. The boarder between Europe and Asia is not always clear but the size figure for Europe only includes the parts that are within the generally accepted definition. Russia is a European country. It is a huge country (largest in the world) and most of it is not in Europe but the core of the country and where almost all people live is in the European part. If we excluding the Russian part of Europe we definitely need to excluding Alaska and Hawaii from the area of the US, as Russia is an integral part of Europe. And has been for centuries. Which is something that you cannot say about Alaska or Hawaii.
I love using public transport... travel between cities is more relaxing 😊 if you have a meeting your more refreshed plus you have time to recap your work ... I love it... your work ethic is different from us You live to work ..... we work to live 😂😂😂😂
Hey you 2 ladies... sorry Mike 😂 If you ever get to the UK and want to see more than London, I have a tip for you. There is a town in Northeast England called Darlington. An OK town but nothing special, but it had 1 big advantage. It is 30 minutes to 1 hour away from Durham, York, Edinburgh, the lake district, and more. So you could visit these places and return the same day, so no need to relocate. Not to mention, Darlington is much cheaper hotel wise ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
I grew up in Stokesley Living in Budapest now, trust me Darlington & Middlesbrough are crapholes, nobody in their right minds would visit there, especially people from abroad. So many nicer places of the country. Though York is pretty okay to visit. Remember Mike is 37 never left the country and has been to less than a dozen states..... he ain't gonna be coming over anytime soon lol
@@charlesjay8818I’ve been to both places as my wife is from Darlington and it is a nice place and so is Budapest but I don’t see down and out sleeping in the underpass in Darlington as they do in Budapest so try to more honest.
@@Sean22ei Budapest is a capital city, and like many other capitals there are people sleeping rough, so maybe think of context, as Darlington is really not the ideal place to recommend to anyone, especially a foreign tourist, when there are other places to give them a better impression of this country. Rough sleepers generally gravitate to larger cities and as you very well know, there are larger cities very close to Darlington, where there are many rough sleepers.
Afterthought: For tourists, a lot of cities in Europe have daily or weekly tickets, where you can ride every sort of public transport offered there. For example Vienna for 5 days I pay 17,00 Euro and can use the whole system. That is genius. Elmar
London has something similar, I forget the exact limit but you can hop on and off the Tube (Underground) dozens times during the day, but after the first 3 or so journeys the rest will be free.
He’s a tell tale sign - planning regulations for new developments in the US specify MINIMUM number of parking spaces. Planning regulations in Europe specify MAXIMUM number of parking spaces. Travel in Europe is so easy. You need to get from Berlin to Madrid as a tourist you hop on a train. In the US it’s a trip to an airport or a rental car and a long drive - both of which cost a fortune.
You can go from the center of London to Paris in a few hours on a train, through the channel tunnel. You can also get round trip flights to Europe for a few pounds.
Hey guys, on your explanation of the tram, you were describing what we call a cable car, which is a completely different mode of transport. Cable cars are used over here mostly in a resort for transporting a couple of people up to the top of a mountain. Trams however are similar to trains where they are powered by electric cables which are placed above the tram. They carry lots of people depending on how many carriage's they have.😀
The USA had the biggest cable car/streetcar/horse car system in the world. ruclips.net/video/-cjfTG8DbwA/видео.htmlsi=QxjXBoReo2H3R-M7 maybe a good one to watch.
@@Ffinity It's obvious from what Mike is saying that he knows what a tram is! They use the same word as us. (Americans do sometimes call trams streetcars also, although pedantically there is a defined difference between the two)
I ride my bike 20 miles, 32 Kilometerstand a day to work and home (in Austria, Europe) for now 8 years and I'm still alive. I think, it's just about the right lighting and clothing with reflecting stripes at night.
You should react to some videos from the channel "Not Just Bikes". It's about transportation differences between north america (usa + canada) and europe (even some outside). It's made by someone who emigrated from Canada to Amsterdam. All videos are great, just pick one.
Europe is very popular with backpackers, you can travel around very easily and find accommodation without the need for a car, all you need is a backpack, I would hazard a guess that backpacking is nowhere near as common as a way of travelling in the US. Backpacking is even very common in Australia, with the same size land mass as the US, the infrastructure here is surprisingly good for the size and population of the country.
Im from Sweden and Ive traveled around all of Europe by train. Its an amazing way to get around and you get to see so much while going from one country to another!
Bike paths in Czech republic are everywhere, but its't not like we have a special roads for bikes or bike lanes on every road. We have a really complex system of markings and street signs that will get you everywhere. In big cities there are special bike/pedestrian paths alongside the main roads. And when you looks at the map on bike paths you can see that we have a lot of them.
Places like Prague and Budapest for instance are very walkable cities. Even London is very walkable. I was in London overnight a few years ago for a big family reunion and I got the train to London Victoria. I then walked the 25mins to my hotel going through St.James' Park, past Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square.
The video paints a very rose tinted view of European transport. The UK has many issues. It had an extensive rail network until a certain Dr. Beeching got his hands on it [something you might want to review] Whilst most cities and larger towns are well served, this is not the case for less populated areas. Poor rail and bus networks are the norm. Where I live, which certainly can not be classed as rural, is a thirty minute walk for a train, and buses stop running around 6.30pm. For leisure, a walk in my local hills is a twenty minute drive away; by bus, an hour and twenty!
Lol that road map is a little misleading, it makes it look like the UK has no more than 3 roads in the whole country. We have 56 different motorways.
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The train lines map in the beginning was also quite misleading, not even close to reality. The line between Oslo and Trondheim in Norway wasn't even shown and that's one of the core lines in Norway. And in general it was just so incredibly inaccurate, and there's way more train tracks in general.
I live near Cardiff in South Wales and my over 60s travel pass allows me free bus travel and free travel on local trains. I also have an over 60s train travel pass which gives me 1/3 off travel throughout the UK. Trains from my local train station to Cardiff (200 yards from my home) are every 15 minutes and the bus service from my nearest stop (just 100 yards from my home) leaves every 20 minutes.
Juneau, Alaska: 2,710.9 square miles Wrangell, Alaska: 2,542.5 square miles Anchorage, Alaska: 1,704.7 square miles Jacksonville, Florida: 747 square miles
Its funny that you said to get to X place that is a 10/11 drive maybe 12 hours. In Europe of somewhere is 600 miles away you jump on a plane most likely or a train, the default for a 600 mile journey is generally not to drive
One could argue that "deigned" is not the best word to use when we are talking about the infrastructure of European cities in comparison to the US. Yes we all have town planners, but the difference is that a planner in the US would have vast swathes of untouched land to draw and plan their designs upon, where Europeans already had thousands of years of existing "infrastructure" to build upon or around. The Europeans of the past settled around key geographical locations and over millennia (and through trial and error) these places evolved to be the more efficient for transporting around whatever trade they were known for. Even many roads today still follow the old Roman & existing roads as they were often the most direct route between towns / villages.
Guys, if you want to go on vacation abroad you can come to Portugal, BIG house here, you just need to pay the tickets, the rest is on me! I'm not kidding, i'm for real, you guys are amazing and i love to watch you! Think about it! ❤
I was a kid in London in the 70s/80s. Used to go everywhere by bus, tube and train all the time. By myself. It seems weird to me, that American children have to be driven everywhere. Not what I call freedom.
Danish citizen here. I've had to commute to one of the bigger cities for school and later work. I did it by train quicker and cheaper than it would have been by car. Also much nicer, read or talk to other passengers for the 30 minute train ride. There are some areas here that's kind of hard to get to by public transport and I want bus routes to be better.
I live in a UK town of only about 50,000 population, but 100 yards from my house there's a bus every 12 minutes (Monday to Saturday) starting at 05.30, and ending at 23.00. On Sunday it's every 20 minutes from 07.00 to 22.30.
I used to take the train from London to Brussels and London to Paris quite regularly for work Time wise end to end it's little different to flying between those cities but without the baggage weight restrictions And when you get off the train, you're right in the middle of the city On the journey you can get out of your seat and walk down to the restaurant car to grab a coffee and some thing to eat After the first time taking the train to those cities, I never flew again
I live in a small town in Scotland and always walk to the shops. The hills and river are so nice plus people will say hi or smile and it makes you feel good about yourself.
In Sweden, I rode my bike to work for about 20miles and also the same long way back. When I moved closer to my work I cycled to work all year around, I used tires with ”spikes” on them during the winter and it worked so perfectly even though I had to climb many slopes. 😂 Is this something you have ever heard of in the US?
Here in Dublin Ireland we have a lot of public transport. Buses trams and trains which all connect. I can get a bus outside my house to a tram or train that will bring me to the other side of the city in 30 minutes. There are also plans to make the entire city pedestrianised with no cars only public transport. We already have car and public transport free streets with cafes restaurants and bars where you can eat outside without breathing in carbon monoxide.
Another thing that is common in Europe is people living in one city and working in a different one, trains let you do that very easily and affordable. And on a train you can ofc just relax, take a nap or read a book 😊
And that is how I managed to work till retirement without ever needing a car (Hej, are you from Sweden? my brother emigrated there, can't do without a car if you live in the countryside. On the plus side, he also has a canoe since he has his garden bordering a lake ;-)
Alot of Europe had a blank slate post WW2 to redesign. Aside from that- edinburgh had a tram system which got ripped out in the 50's or 60's and then got rebuilt in the last 10 years. It's really good and hopefully get more of it.
We wake up in the morning in Budapest, Hungary. I go down to the train station by tram. From there, I take the train for less than 25 minutes and then switch to a bicycle. We will go up to Slovakia by bike along the Danube River. I cross the border without even noticing. I'll be back by nine o'clock in the evening.
Breaks my heart to hear you have never left the US, although I know this is the case for a lot of Americans, not just you. To me travelling is the most fulfilling thing to do in life and as a Brit who’s explored almost all of Europe, it’s an immense privilege we have that we forgot about. When I visit the states I’m often just shocked how culturally deprived the entire country feels, especially as the ‘leader of the free world’, where the majority of the inhabitants have seen none of the free world.
About the bike paths: there are often bike paths along rivers and canals. There were often tow paths, where horses pulled river boats until the industrial revolution and motorized transport on water. There are a lot of those.
If someone told me that there is a Statistic in the UK that over half of the population uses a train at least once a month it wouldn't surprise me at all.
To be fair at 3:25 when he talks about the areas of the US which don’t have any rail services, from my limited knowledge of the US they are the places where not many people live like Montana and the Dakotas or Nevada. Why would you want loads of rail there? And yes he was including Russia when you asked. At least the European part of Russia west of The Ural Mountains
Hi Mike and Jess, in response to Jess saying how nice it would be to ride a bike in the countryside, here in the UK there were many unproductive rail tracks that were closed down many years ago but in more recent times many of these have now been converted into cycle ways. Resulting in a route whereby you can cycle through the countryside and, being an ex rail track you have the bonus that it is all on level ground i.e. no hills. There are occasions where a bridge over a road has been removed but you simply come down to the road, cross, and go back up to continue your journey again. Many families partake of this pleasure as a family as the terrain is so easy that kids of all ages can cope with it.
I live in northern Europe. In the summer I bike to work ~20 minutes. In the winter I walk ~50 mins. I have never owned a car. I do have a drivers licence as it's convenient sometimes to borrow or rent a car when you need it but day to day I don't feel I need it compared to the cost of having one (payments, insurance, gas, inspections and whatnot)
I live in a small city in Romania and I use my car everyday, but whenever I go to the capital, I use the subway, the bus or the tram because it's easier for us to get around. We have special bus lanes and special bike lanes so there is no incentive to get a car.
17:17 you don’t need a passport to travel to Schengen couhtries, that’s the whole point. The only (now former) Schengen country where i ever had to show some form of ID was UK. Most of times you don’t need an ID even to travel between Schengen and non-Schengen (i’ve never been asked any ID to travel between Italy and Switzerland, or Croatia).
When I lived in Gainesville (1998-2001) I drove up to Jacksonville up the 301, we went on a trolley ride. It only held about 20 people, they’re small, but it was fun! ❤❤️👍🇬🇧
Very interesting to learn about these differences. I live in Stockholm and have never in my life had a job I couldn’t either walk or bike to. I do own a car to get to my summer house but never use it in the city. Usually walking or biking or public transport (bus, subway, train).
The map showing the European rail network was truly correct. There are far more numerous lines both in Britain and Europe than was potrayed. Many areas and towns in the UK are well connected to the national rail system.
I never understand why Americans think that they have the best of everything.
Schools tell them while they growing up
Because they never visit any other countries, Americans struggles to understand that there are other countries
I wouldn’t like to live in America they are brainwashed into thinking that America is the greatest country in the world,when in reality it’s nowhere near the best country in the world
As an American who lives in Europe I can tell you it is brainwashing from a young age.
Because they are brainwashed as soon as they go to school e.g having to repeat the pledge of alliegance every day in school, similar to repressive countries around the world.
If you ever go to europe, travel between the capitals on trains... Its awesome! No luggage restrictions, train stations are in the city, airports tend to be an hour outside of them.
Or also have another train line that brings you directly to the airport, like in Vienna with its City Airport Train (CAT)
A rich country is not a country where poor people drive around in cars they can't afford, but a country where rich people uses public transport, because it's conveniant
Public transport is terrible wherever you go.
@@meganoikz This is said by someone who prefers to continue polluting the air by car but has never sat in a modern means of public transportation, this answer shows your very ignorant and naive way about it
@@meganoikz Not been around much, have you?
@@KeesBoonsjij zegt het, ik dacht het 👍
Are you a Murican?@@meganoikz
I am from the Netherlands and I sold my car two years ago. I took a subscription to a car share company for when I need a car. And as far as the weather goes when you have to cycle about 250 Km’s a week, there is not such a thing as bad weather, there is only bad clothing 😂
I’m in Stockholm, Sweden and had the exact same experience. Sold the car. Use a car sharing service when I need it. Bicycle when the weather allows.
I took my bike everywhere in Denmark. Even in December i would be out on it shopping in a bigger city. And often biked through snow blowing right in my face. So always had eyebrows full of ice and snow and people i knew found it crazy that i went out in weather like that. But we all do that here. Weather can do what it wants as long as cows aren't flying about we're out in it... 😅
So many car share options here in NL now. Greenwheels, MyWheels, Sixt, CarNow etc.
@@danfarrik "Bicycle when the weather allows.".. Great, but not the exact same as the Dutch experience. As the op said: no bad weather (only bad kleather..). If some don't make it to work or school, that's too bad. It's our substitute for natural selection 😁
@ ha ha! Yeah, I guess, but I live in a city in Sweden and don’t want to die so much. Not yet. Even if I can manage the bike, I don’t trust the cars.
Like everywhere, European governments understand the importance of their economy, but they also have concern for the wellbeing of their people. A NATION is made of people, not businesses. The USA boasts of its' economic wealth, but the only real mark of a nations wealth lies in the quality of its' citizens everyday lives.
Well said.
Which is why the USA is a rich third world country.
Wouldn't that be nice. 20 years ago maybe, sadly the opposite is true today, which is why the EU's, french, brittish and german government are currently breaking appart. The economy is at the brink of destruction, while the majority of people are in debt and crime rates explode, while the governments shove money they don't have (and steal from future generations instead) into bullshit idology projects that reap no benefit.
For what I know, as an EU citizen I can stay in an other EU country for as long as I want. The 3 months mentioned in the video is for non EU citizens.
Highly depends on where they come from. Visa regulations for folks from Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the US are less strict than those of others. My Japanese friends can stay here for 90 days without extra paperwork, just need their passport. Indonesian friends have to apply for a EU visa and additionally the local national visa.
europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-rights/index_en.htm#eu-citizen
It never fails to amaze me how insular people from the US are and their lack of curiosity about the outside world. It's nice that you're seeking to address that!
They are brainwashed from an early age.
If you're told you are the best, and everywhere else is rubbish, then you wouldn't bother😂😂
Then you will unfortunately have to realize that Trump will prevent this again and continue to rely on cars and air pollution.
Obvs! 🤦@@baramuth71
You’re right. It’s wilful stupidity and greed fuelled ignorance 🤯
@@baramuth71 So will we all for quite a long time.
I don't know why people have to bring politics into a light-hearted channel,but there you go!
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I am from Bulgaria. In 2007 I was in Destin Florida for the summer in a student university program. Work and Travel. We all bought bicycles to go to work ( we worked in Big Kahuna water park). The main road coast line was the only big road going through the town and the town spanned along that road. I remember driving my bike back from Walmart with shopping bags and the police stopped me for me driving on the side of the road. I got really sacred at the beginning, thinking what can happend with you, stopped by the police in the USA. Thankfully nothing scary happened. They told me that I wasn't supposed to ride on the side of the road and to go on the pavement , which is unheard of in Europe. You dont drive bike on the pavement where you can hit a pedestrian. May be it makes a bit more sense in US because there are not many people on the sidewalk,only ocasional joggers, I dont know but it was a strange experience. Stopped by a police for riding bike on the road. WTF
*Programme
I lived and worked in Bulgaria about 2001-5, and visited regularly after then.
Your public transport is great in the cities, old but cheap and plentiful, and the coaches to go between Sofia and places like Varna are far better than the old dirty trains.
A very interesting country.
Not sure why you were scared getting stopped by US cops.
@@somebloke13 It was in the US. so it was a program (signed: A Brit).
@@terryhunt2659 Yeah just like exchange for the summer. Its called Work and Travel. I thought i mentioned it. You get a 6 month visa with the right to work for 3 months and other 3 you can stay, travel , basically spend the money that you have earned. Most university students though work for 3 months. Get a week to travel or do smth fun and then you have to go back for the semester is starting. Some stayed there in the US as immigrants sometimes. Back in the says more often, nowadays almost noone.
If you want to get a better insight how cycling is organized in The Netherlands I recommend the following channels: 'Not Just Bikes' and 'Bicycle Dutch'.
Hey friends, just a quick FYI; Russia switches from Europe to Asia at the Ural mountains and river. Thanks!
The biggest difference between Europe/UK and the USA is the way the government looks at things. The controlling factor in the European/UK view is the needs of the citizens of those countries. Public transport is there to move people around efficiently. People moving efficiently means a thriving economy. When people cannot move around, the economy is stifled. The same can be said of freight transport. It is why Europe/UK has an extensive rail network and public transport networks. Invest in public transport and the economy will grow. The America model is the reverse of this, they will only build a transport system if the demand is already there. Europe/UK is proactive when it comes to transport whereas Europe the USA is reactive. A classic example of this was the Francis Scott Key Bridge. In Europe/UK as shipping got bigger we put in pier protection to protect our bridges which form parts of the transport network. The USA only put pier protection on new bridges, it left the old ones alone. Now the USA has 1500 bridges that have no pier protection. Again, the USA will not act until it's too late. Whereas Europe/UK has protected all its vulnerable bridges. its also what happens when governments are full of representatives sponsored by the Oil corporations.
You guys are awesome. Never apologise for what you are doing. You are educating yourselves, your fellow Americans and some of us Brits. Keep up the good work, we appreciate it ♥
I travel from Suffolk to London to watch football every weekend. I travel by train because it's about an hour quicker than going by car. Plus it means I can drink
Im currently in Valencia (Spain) and just booked a flight back to the UK on 15 December and it cost me €15.99 at todays exchange rate thats £13.18 or $16.80
When I was at University in Scotland. I got discount for travel. This was prior to Brexit. We started by travelling to Paris for a 2 day stay. Left after breakfast. Brussels (Lunch) , Amsterdam Dinner), Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Lake Balaton, Varazden, Zagreb, Llubnijana, Salzburg, Munich and back to Paris. The rule was we had to stay at a hostel less than $10 per night. The Amsterdam to Berlin train we took overnight to save paying for a place for example. It was 3 weeks of absolute bliss. It restored my faith in humanity with the kindness offered. So the train system is invaluable. Love you both and your channel. Great work 🙏
You can literally fly from the Uk to any country in Europe for under $100. Some flights you can get for as little as $30 or $40
Those cheap flights are probably one-way tickets... Most people would prefer to also go home at some point. ;-)
Try flighing from the Channel Islands to the main land the flight from guernsey to England is more expert than the rest of the holiday!
Not Russia ...
@@Klojum Just checked you can get a London - Rome return right now for £46
@@Klojum under $100 is usually for there and back. From Dublin one way flights start from around 15 eur. It's often cheaper to fly to Croatia than drive to other side of the of Ireland
I honestly hope that you and your family get to visit Europe on a Euro Vacation, I know it would blow your minds🤯 when you get to Experience so many cultures from Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, UK, etc
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A country named Holland doesn't exist.
@@mariadamen7886 JaJa, but you can understand people being a little confused when your national football team is called Holland. I,ve never seen a Netherlands football scarf.
@@mariadamen7886 Yes it does. "Holland" is simply used as a synonym (of the "pars pro toto" variety). Has been used like that for ages by us Dutchies and foreigners alike.
In Germany, one important issue to notice that the excellent public transport is focused in metropolitan areas. It is not quite as easy in the countryside. There are still bus and train connections out here "in the sticks" , don't get me wrong, but we're talking 2-4 buses per hour during the busiest times (people getting to work/school and back), while in cities/suburbs you are more likely to get buses every 5-10 minutes during peak hours.
It is not a perfect, all-encompassing coverage, but a good number of people manage to get by without cars, which is simply awesome.
lol you say that like it's a bad thing, 2 - 4 buses an hour is unheard of in most of the usa. Where i come from the buses were every four minutes into town from our estate, i now live much more rural and yeah they're twice an hour on one route and twice an hour on another, 15 minutes apart which i think is pretty standard for us all really? I'm also a seven minute drive from a rail line that links to a national line after 45 minutes, so that's quite cool. from there i can go pretty much anywhere.
The stats on the car parking space being more than residential absolutely blew my mind though.
@@scotmax8426 I did not mean to make anything sound "bad", only to be realistic. To clarify: There is a wide and varied range between not having any decent public transport (like in the U.S.A.) , having bus or tram connections every 5 minutes in many European cities, and having a whole city planned around bicycles and pedestrians where cars are prohibited in central areas, like Groningen (Netherlands).
Communities in the U.S.A. could start on a comparatively small scale and would still experience tangible benefits. Public transport is not an all-or-nothing issue, and while the situation in the EU is much better overall, I don't want people to forget that we still have ample room for improvement in rural Europe.
@@At-Dawn-We-Ride sorry aye , it was my clumsy way of agreeing with you. :)
@@scotmax8426 No worries.
@@At-Dawn-We-Ride Same in Austria, however it depends on the region here. Vienna's transit company always boasts about being very reliable, however, nobody really mentions the times when you have to wait at a bus stop with no shelter in the rain where the bus line has 10min planned intervals, but you end up sometimes waiting 25min before one actually shows up. Happened to me often enough that I just walk two stops where 3 lines stop and get on whichever comes first. Also, when you have to transition between lines, you sometimes need to get lucky that the public transport (be it either tram, metro, train or bus) doesn't leave right as you get to the stop...
Then there is also the fact that you have to plan your travel route according to the timetables of public transport, which sometimes can be limiting time and planningwise.
As a 71 year old person living in England, I qualify for an elderly person's bus pass, giving me free access to the bus network.
Over sixty in Scotland
@@lordprefab5534
It's also 60 in Wales, NI, and London.
Everywhere else it is linked to the state pension age.
Free acces to state network , i mean bus ,train, etc is free also in Europe. Spain also has low prices for pensioners to go to the beach by bus , eat in a restaurant and sleep in an hotel or hostal .. mainly groups of 30 to 40 pesioners. I mean all included .. It´s called "Imserso".
The Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO) is an agency of the Government of Spain responsible for the management of social services that complement the benefits of the Social Security System, disability and retirement pensions, in its non-contributory modalities, as well as the exercise of the powers of the General State Administration in matters relating the elderly and dependent persons. The IMSERSO is categorized as a "Management Entity of the Social Security".
I live in a small village of 34 homes in rural England. We have a daily return bus service to the local towns. I can walk a mile to the nearest main road, where I can get onto the national local bus service that can get me anywhere in the country. From the same bus stop, there is a daily express return bus service to London. From the nearest town I have a train service that can get me to anywhere in the UK and, if I go to London, anywhere in Europe. The road I live on is a small country lane no more than 12'-0" wide, which is a part of the National Cycle network. 150 yds along the road from me, the road is crossed by one of the National long distance footpaths that completely crosses southern England. Yep, we are free, freer than any American. We can go where we want without having to get in a car. We even have a local supermarket that is part of a Petrol filling station that is just 1 mile from my home. That is real freedom. I do have a car and I do use it, but my freedom is the freedom of choice. Also being over 65 I have a government issued bus pass which gives me free travel on the bus's, and even if I didn't have one bus fares are capped at £3
In the US if you discount the bigger cities you can’t walk to the shops, its infrastructure is built on using cars. I live in a smaller town in the UK. I can walk everywhere in my town as the scale of it is much smaller. We don’t have enough parking because towns and cities were planned before cars or at least when there were a lot less cars. The trains came before cars and Europe was already highly populated hundreds of years ago. American larger towns and cities are vast, they cover a huge area and it would cost a fortune to build a transportation system. The houses are built in a separate area that can be a long long way from jobs, shopping and access to medical care etc.
I’ve visited the US many times and, being one of those unable to drive, find it very restrictive if I need to get around.
The family house I sometimes visit, although in the suburbs, is 25 miles from its city, has no facilities for public transportation, and it’s extremely expensive to call a cab out or Uber. There isn’t even any sidewalks if I decide to walk to the nearest stores, bars etc - walking across people’s yards or on roads is just weird
That car parking thing is very true! I was looking at Louisville, KY on Google Earth, and was astounded by how far apart the buildings were in the city! When I zoomed in closer, I saw that for each building there was an area four or five times greater that was just for parking! Here in Australia, we hand multi-level carparks so they have a much smaller footprint, in fact, many carparks are within the building’s footprint to conserve land space for more important things.
For instance, one of our major shopping malls has 497 stores, with parking for nearly 5000 cars. The parking is on top of the mall and is multi-level, the rest of the property has an entertainment centre with four cinemas, restaurants and cafes throughout the mall as well as on the roof, and many other features that attract people from many suburbs via public transport, both buses and trains, so it’s a major hub in the district. From the air, you can only see the rooftop carparks, but below each one is another three levels of car parking spaces.
As the song goes " they paved paradise and put a parking lot."
That's America. Go green ? Rather go asphalt black or concrete gray. Mono Chromatic is far better for the mighty us dollar.
Is Australia really better? 😅
Does it also have underground parking? As in quite a few cities in Austria, parking for cars at a shopping center is usually either underground or a mix of above the shopping center and underground, sometimes with some parking spaces on ground level directly in front.
@ Yes, sometimes above and below, it depends on the geology and whether if’s cost effective to dig out tonnes of rock.
While I don't disagree with the subject video's general message, I have to say (as a European, specifically a Brit) that the maps used for comparisons are misleading - they mostly are _not_ drawn to similar complexities or for the same purposes.
Europe has around 36,000 railway stations compared to around 500 in the US.
We have 2800 rail stations- in tiny Czech Republic. I can get anywhere in the country by train.
Mike, I have to tell you this! Aussies love to travel! We travel around our own country because there’s so much to see, do and explore, but we also travel overseas a LOT! We fly to Europe, Asia, the Holy Land, the UK and the US. Lots of Brits migrate to Australia to catch the sunshine and the beaches. A few Americans are living here because they have Aussie partners. But suggest to an American that they should come Down Under, and you’ll get twenty reasons why they can’t. The first reason is “It’s too far!” Well, that’s not a valid excuse because you can drive for 14=hours in the US and still be in the US, but if you fly for those 14 hours, you can be in Sydney! (Just make sure you declare EVERYTHING and don’t lie on your Customs Card), and you can have a great holiday!
“It’s too expensive”: We save up for a year or two so we can travel overseas, so it’s a matter of priorities. If you want to travel, save up for it. Or vlog it on RUclips and earn your money that way. You can’t work in Australia on a tourist visa.
“Too many deadly animals!” Not unless you go looking for them in the outback without a tour guide. The US has grizzly bears, bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions and other things that can kill you, so again, not an excuse.
Attractiveness of Australia? Well for starters, we don’t have guns unless we are licensed to own one for a specific purpose, so there is no risk of being shot.
We have 10,000 ocean beaches, many of which are patrolled by lifeguards who watch out for anyone in trouble, make sure everyone is swimming between the red and yellow flags, and will sound the shark alarm if one is spotted. If you’re visiting from a landlocked homeland, don’t go into the water unless you’re a strong swimmer. You can be carried away by a rip if you don’t know what you’re doing , don’t listen to the lifeguards, and if you don’t obey the Warning signs at the beach.
Australians also seem to take long holidays. Every Australian I have met here in Prague says they are staying in Europe for 1 month or longer. Many the whole summer.
In Germany we have the Deutschland Ticket, you can take all public transport in the whole country for about 50€ per month only excluding the two most fast options of trains
CHEAP !!! In Italy...a week by train on a distance of 150 km of railway...is more or less 40 euros... A week ! Not a month ! Unglaublich...i would say....
4:58 the amount of Americans that don't know Russia is the biggest country in the world is mad..
Yes. And Russia is almost double bigger than second largest country canada..
It is not as if not knowing that is going to cost you your life. There are more important things about russia being ignored.
Great reaction. You guys really need to travel to Europe at some point. You'd love it. You're just the kind of people we need over here.
That was probably me that was shocked about u guys never going on train, it's hard to imagine 😅Here in Hong Kong during peak hours on the main underground lines the large trains arrive and leave every 2 minutes, changing lines is quick & easy, it's super clean & the whole thing is still subsidised post-pandemic so if I spend over a certain amount I get a refund at the end of the month.😅
Funny story, I visited the USA in 2010 & couldn't rent a car (crap Credit Card) & ended up getting myself a month long Greyhound pass, travelled from Miami to New Orleans to do some volunteer work with Habitat, then hopped on & off to Colorado & ended up meeting & driving/camping with some American girls the rest of the way to California through a few states, it was a great trip! Actually met some decent people on the bus 😂 I guess times have changed though.
I’ve visited HK many times and I’ve never needed a cab or been in a car. The transit system is perfect for moving around the island and Kowloon etc and the airport train is so quick getting downtown
Well there is a big difference between an highly dense urban area and a suburban area/small towns. In Europe less than 40 cities have a metro system. Much more than the 16 in the US but the EU alone has 800 cities with more than 50k people (the number is pretty similar to the American one), 120 main cities/metropolitan areas.
Even the USPS has problems transporting mail! I’m in Sydney, Australia and when I order a parcel from the US, once that parcel is in the air, it arrives at Sydney Airport within 24 hours, then it goes through customs, is transported to the mail centre, and I have it within two days of it landing in Sydney. So when I tell you that ordering something from the US can take up to three weeks to get to me, you know it’s not because of the long flight. I track it and it goes to three or four states by road before it even arrives at an airport, then it can sit at the airport for days, waiting to be flown across the US to an airport on the west coast, where it sits again for a week or more! All the while, I’m watching the tracking and I get worried that my parcel got lost, because it arrived at the airport two weeks ago and hasn’t moved! On the other hand, if I send a parcel to the US, it arrives within two weeks including customs and flights as well as road transport.
Check out Haarlem in the Netherlands!
Since my retirement last March I have taken to cross country walks from my home to neighbouring towns and villages and catching the bus back home, this is free travel for me as a pensioner.
Most people are put off from taking that leap of faith by the thought of leaving family behind. It's more of an excuse not to move than a reason to stay. You've got to put those thoughts behind you and make plans. A move to Europe is a fantastic opportunity for you and your immediate family. Your own parents would most likely wish you well in such an adventure and be happy to see their children living their best life. Remember that life is for living.
Having lived in both the USA and here in Uk, I would seriously recommend that you at least consider it.
Yep, the benefits of living a happy life every single day far outweighs missing your family. These days you can catch up with them over video calls anyway so it's not like you're never going to "see" or interact with them again.
We are Aussies who visit Europe every couple of years to attend the TT races at the Isle of Man. We usually spend 6-8 weeks travelling through Europe as it is a long, expensive trip to fly from Australia so we make the most of our trips. When travelling between European countries we had no need for visas but were disappointed we did not get any stamps in our passports to record our visits. On another issue, many cities in Australia have free tram travel within a certain distance from the city centre. Queensland recently introduced a maximum 50 cent cost for travel on their buses, trains & trams.
There are 2 bus routes within 3 minute walk from my house, and the buses arrive every 5 minutes.
A regional train station 5 minute walk away, and a mainline one 10 minutes drive.
Part of the problem in America is the lack of local shops and other things. We have small shops everywhere. There are 5 within 2 minutes walk from my house, a supermarket within 5 minute walk, and another 4 within 10 minute walk. There are 3 fish and chip shops, an Indian takeaway, a Chinese takeaway within 3 minutes.
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Im the same , bus on the door step , train station 10 mins away , can get to anywhere from Alnwick to York within an hour , 90 mins max , Im from Teesside btw , hello fellow Northerner
@@DigitalRageInc
Hello
Hi neighbor ;-)
I am from the Nederlands, and too see how it is here look at a video of: not Just bikes
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You should check out a shorter video of POV Tram ride in any European Country. These Trams go from the outskirts of a city / town and all the way to the inner areas. They are so easy to use, cheap and they take you everywhere. They are also clean and designed well for push chairs and wheelchairs alike.
I’m from the UK 🇬🇧, and have travelled to many EU countries inc Iceland 🇮🇸 which the most unique country I’ve ever seen.
The French TGV train is super fast, the German Autobahn doesn’t have a speed limit.
Driving through the Italian Dolomites and French Alps is breathtaking.
Each EU country is just wonderfully different and the food is amazing. I’ve also enjoyed USA and Canada.
Russia is partially in Europe. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia also span across two continents. The boundary runs from the Turkish Straits, to the Caspian Sea, and then follows the Ural River to the Ural Mountains.
3.9million km2 out of 17.1million km2 of Russia is in Europe. So 23% of Russia is in Europe, and the remaining 77% is in Asia.
I live in London, and I think it's fair to say that as far as the UK goes, the cities have great public transport and cycling infrastructure. But once you get out to the more rural areas, public transport takes a nosedive. In my dad's village out in Berkshire, there's one bus stop which you have to call the bus company to get them to come. The closest train station is around two miles away and trains stop there around once every two hours. London, on the other hand, has several 24-hour bus routes and in recent times, 24-hour Tube/Overground trains in some areas on Fridays and Saturdays.
You may enjoy looking at Britain's canals and narrowboat living.
Inter-railling in Europe is insane value;
European Pass Options:
• 4 days in 1 month:
• Youth (12-27): £180
• Adult (28-59): £241
• Senior (60+): £217
Continuous Passes (unlimited travel):
• 15 days: from £303
• 1 month: from £444
• 3 months: from £609
I went Euro Railing in the '80s I think I paid about £90 for the 3 months.
@ It’s was much better value back in the day, even in the 90s it was basically just the cost of hostels, whatever food your gut could tolerate and whatever you wanted to do.
7:45 Whereas the tiny 1 square mile city centre, in my 141 square mile city *Bradford,* is getting rid of roads completely, so that you'll only be able to drive around the city centre, rather than through it.
The traffic was already bad enough, especially at rush hour, but now they've almost finished getting rid of:
Jacobs Well.
Hall Ings.
Market Street.
Part of Sunbridge Road.
Part of Little Horton Lane.
The rest of Broadway.
The rest of Bank Street.
Most of Bridge Street...
Along with adding a new bus lane, and another vehicle sized cycle lane, yet the cycle lanes we already had never get used.
Now the traffic is ridiculous.
Not to mention the fact that the main bus and train station, which is known as The Interchange, has been closed for most of 2024, because of possible structural problems. However it will reopen soon, as the structural problems weren't as bad as they first thought.
He would only be including a tiny part of Russia in his definition of continental Europe. To illustrate there is a train from Moscow to Vladivostok called the Trans Siberian that takes 7 days (not a fast train). After about 1 day you are no longer in Europe but in Asia. I have friends who live in a city called Yekaterinburg in the Urals which is close to the border of Europe and Asia.
Yes, he only includes the European part of Russia, not the complete country.
Indeed.
The boarder between Europe and Asia is not always clear but the size figure for Europe only includes the parts that are within the generally accepted definition. Russia is a European country. It is a huge country (largest in the world) and most of it is not in Europe but the core of the country and where almost all people live is in the European part.
If we excluding the Russian part of Europe we definitely need to excluding Alaska and Hawaii from the area of the US, as Russia is an integral part of Europe. And has been for centuries. Which is something that you cannot say about Alaska or Hawaii.
I love using public transport... travel between cities is more relaxing 😊 if you have a meeting your more refreshed plus you have time to recap your work ... I love it... your work ethic is different from us You live to work ..... we work to live 😂😂😂😂
I like taking the train because I can have a beer and relax.
Hey you 2 ladies... sorry Mike 😂
If you ever get to the UK and want to see more than London, I have a tip for you.
There is a town in Northeast England called Darlington. An OK town but nothing special, but it had 1 big advantage. It is 30 minutes to 1 hour away from Durham, York, Edinburgh, the lake district, and more. So you could visit these places and return the same day, so no need to relocate. Not to mention, Darlington is much cheaper hotel wise
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I grew up in Stokesley Living in Budapest now, trust me Darlington & Middlesbrough are crapholes, nobody in their right minds would visit there, especially people from abroad. So many nicer places of the country. Though York is pretty okay to visit.
Remember Mike is 37 never left the country and has been to less than a dozen states..... he ain't gonna be coming over anytime soon lol
I like Darlington, the West End is very leafy and pleasant and I find the people very friendly. And it's not trodden flat by tourists.
@@charlesjay8818I’ve been to both places as my wife is from Darlington and it is a nice place and so is Budapest but I don’t see down and out sleeping in the underpass in Darlington as they do in Budapest so try to more honest.
@@Sean22ei
Budapest is a capital city, and like many other capitals there are people sleeping rough, so maybe think of context, as Darlington is really not the ideal place to recommend to anyone, especially a foreign tourist, when there are other places to give them a better impression of this country.
Rough sleepers generally gravitate to larger cities and as you very well know, there are larger cities very close to Darlington, where there are many rough sleepers.
@ I wasn’t the one making the comparison.
Afterthought: For tourists, a lot of cities in Europe have daily or weekly tickets, where you can ride every sort of public transport offered there. For example Vienna for 5 days I pay 17,00 Euro and can use the whole system. That is genius.
Elmar
London has something similar, I forget the exact limit but you can hop on and off the Tube (Underground) dozens times during the day, but after the first 3 or so journeys the rest will be free.
He’s a tell tale sign - planning regulations for new developments in the US specify MINIMUM number of parking spaces. Planning regulations in Europe specify MAXIMUM number of parking spaces. Travel in Europe is so easy. You need to get from Berlin to Madrid as a tourist you hop on a train. In the US it’s a trip to an airport or a rental car and a long drive - both of which cost a fortune.
You can go from the center of London to Paris in a few hours on a train, through the channel tunnel. You can also get round trip flights to Europe for a few pounds.
Hey guys, on your explanation of the tram, you were describing what we call a cable car, which is a completely different mode of transport.
Cable cars are used over here mostly in a resort for transporting a couple of people up to the top of a mountain. Trams however are similar to trains where they are powered by electric cables which are placed above the tram. They carry lots of people depending on how many carriage's they have.😀
I believe that a tram is known as a streetcar in the States.
This is what we have here in Jacksonville. www.jtafla.com/ride-jta/skyway/
The USA had the biggest cable car/streetcar/horse car system in the world. ruclips.net/video/-cjfTG8DbwA/видео.htmlsi=QxjXBoReo2H3R-M7 maybe a good one to watch.
Noooo, he's not describing a cable car! It's an elevated monorail thing with small trains/carriages, as he described!
@@Ffinity It's obvious from what Mike is saying that he knows what a tram is! They use the same word as us. (Americans do sometimes call trams streetcars also, although pedantically there is a defined difference between the two)
I ride my bike 20 miles, 32 Kilometerstand a day to work and home (in Austria, Europe) for now 8 years and I'm still alive. I think, it's just about the right lighting and clothing with reflecting stripes at night.
You should react to some videos from the channel "Not Just Bikes". It's about transportation differences between north america (usa + canada) and europe (even some outside). It's made by someone who emigrated from Canada to Amsterdam. All videos are great, just pick one.
North East England here. Take a train everyday to work.
Europe is very popular with backpackers, you can travel around very easily and find accommodation without the need for a car, all you need is a backpack, I would hazard a guess that backpacking is nowhere near as common as a way of travelling in the US.
Backpacking is even very common in Australia, with the same size land mass as the US, the infrastructure here is surprisingly good for the size and population of the country.
Stevenage, hertfordshire was designed for pedestrians and cyclists. You can walk or cycle to anywhere in the town without crossing a road
Im from Sweden and Ive traveled around all of Europe by train. Its an amazing way to get around and you get to see so much while going from one country to another!
Bike paths in Czech republic are everywhere, but its't not like we have a special roads for bikes or bike lanes on every road. We have a really complex system of markings and street signs that will get you everywhere. In big cities there are special bike/pedestrian paths alongside the main roads. And when you looks at the map on bike paths you can see that we have a lot of them.
Places like Prague and Budapest for instance are very walkable cities. Even London is very walkable. I was in London overnight a few years ago for a big family reunion and I got the train to London Victoria. I then walked the 25mins to my hotel going through St.James' Park, past Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square.
The video paints a very rose tinted view of European transport.
The UK has many issues.
It had an extensive rail network until a certain Dr. Beeching got his hands on it [something you might want to review]
Whilst most cities and larger towns are well served, this is not the case for less populated areas.
Poor rail and bus networks are the norm.
Where I live, which certainly can not be classed as rural, is a thirty minute walk for a train, and buses stop running around 6.30pm.
For leisure, a walk in my local hills is a twenty minute drive away; by bus, an hour and twenty!
Remember - most of you in the US are a result of someone who once had the same thought: «Why don´t we just pack up and move over there?» :-)
Russia has a European part and an Asian part devided i think by the Ural mountains.
Lol that road map is a little misleading, it makes it look like the UK has no more than 3 roads in the whole country. We have 56 different motorways.
The train lines map in the beginning was also quite misleading, not even close to reality. The line between Oslo and Trondheim in Norway wasn't even shown and that's one of the core lines in Norway. And in general it was just so incredibly inaccurate, and there's way more train tracks in general.
I live near Cardiff in South Wales and my over 60s travel pass allows me free bus travel and free travel on local trains.
I also have an over 60s train travel pass which gives me 1/3 off travel throughout the UK.
Trains from my local train station to Cardiff (200 yards from my home) are every 15 minutes and the bus service from my nearest stop (just 100 yards from my home) leaves every 20 minutes.
Juneau, Alaska: 2,710.9 square miles
Wrangell, Alaska: 2,542.5 square miles
Anchorage, Alaska: 1,704.7 square miles
Jacksonville, Florida: 747 square miles
Its funny that you said to get to X place that is a 10/11 drive maybe 12 hours. In Europe of somewhere is 600 miles away you jump on a plane most likely or a train, the default for a 600 mile journey is generally not to drive
One could argue that "deigned" is not the best word to use when we are talking about the infrastructure of European cities in comparison to the US. Yes we all have town planners, but the difference is that a planner in the US would have vast swathes of untouched land to draw and plan their designs upon, where Europeans already had thousands of years of existing "infrastructure" to build upon or around.
The Europeans of the past settled around key geographical locations and over millennia (and through trial and error) these places evolved to be the more efficient for transporting around whatever trade they were known for. Even many roads today still follow the old Roman & existing roads as they were often the most direct route between towns / villages.
Guys, if you want to go on vacation abroad you can come to Portugal, BIG house here, you just need to pay the tickets, the rest is on me! I'm not kidding, i'm for real, you guys are amazing and i love to watch you! Think about it! ❤
I was a kid in London in the 70s/80s.
Used to go everywhere by bus, tube and train all the time. By myself.
It seems weird to me, that American children have to be driven everywhere.
Not what I call freedom.
Danish citizen here. I've had to commute to one of the bigger cities for school and later work. I did it by train quicker and cheaper than it would have been by car. Also much nicer, read or talk to other passengers for the 30 minute train ride. There are some areas here that's kind of hard to get to by public transport and I want bus routes to be better.
Al Murray did a skit on the Euro crisis which happened around 2008, very funny, definitely another worth watching! 😀
I live in a UK town of only about 50,000 population, but 100 yards from my house there's a bus every 12 minutes (Monday to Saturday) starting at 05.30, and ending at 23.00. On Sunday it's every 20 minutes from 07.00 to 22.30.
I used to take the train from London to Brussels and London to Paris quite regularly for work
Time wise end to end it's little different to flying between those cities but without the baggage weight restrictions
And when you get off the train, you're right in the middle of the city
On the journey you can get out of your seat and walk down to the restaurant car to grab a coffee and some thing to eat
After the first time taking the train to those cities, I never flew again
I live in a small town in Scotland and always walk to the shops. The hills and river are so nice plus people will say hi or smile and it makes you feel good about yourself.
In Sweden, I rode my bike to work for about 20miles and also the same long way back.
When I moved closer to my work I cycled to work all year around, I used tires with ”spikes” on them during the winter and it worked so perfectly even though I had to climb many slopes. 😂
Is this something you have ever heard of in the US?
If i drive to Leeds it takes an hour depending on time of day and parking is very expensive but if I get on the train it’s 20 minutes.
Here in Dublin Ireland we have a lot of public transport. Buses trams and trains which all connect. I can get a bus outside my house to a tram or train that will bring me to the other side of the city in 30 minutes. There are also plans to make the entire city pedestrianised with no cars only public transport. We already have car and public transport free streets with cafes restaurants and bars where you can eat outside without breathing in carbon monoxide.
Another thing that is common in Europe is people living in one city and working in a different one, trains let you do that very easily and affordable. And on a train you can ofc just relax, take a nap or read a book 😊
And that is how I managed to work till retirement without ever needing a car
(Hej, are you from Sweden? my brother emigrated there, can't do without a car if you live in the countryside. On the plus side, he also has a canoe since he has his garden bordering a lake ;-)
In 1995 I took a job in central London. It was 30 mins by car to Church carpark, 30 mins walk to station, 30 mins train, then 30 mins bus to office.
You could still only see your family once a year, but they could visit you in Europe and have a great time with you.
The main problem for travel within Europe is the sheer number of languages spoken. However, even that doesn’t stop people wanting to travel.
And everywhere speaks some English. Also, the importance of Hi, Thanks, Please.
To be fair, the UK is terribly congested in places, it isn't all as rosy as this video would suggest.
Alot of Europe had a blank slate post WW2 to redesign. Aside from that- edinburgh had a tram system which got ripped out in the 50's or 60's and then got rebuilt in the last 10 years. It's really good and hopefully get more of it.
We wake up in the morning in Budapest, Hungary. I go down to the train station by tram. From there, I take the train for less than 25 minutes and then switch to a bicycle. We will go up to Slovakia by bike along the Danube River. I cross the border without even noticing. I'll be back by nine o'clock in the evening.
Breaks my heart to hear you have never left the US, although I know this is the case for a lot of Americans, not just you. To me travelling is the most fulfilling thing to do in life and as a Brit who’s explored almost all of Europe, it’s an immense privilege we have that we forgot about. When I visit the states I’m often just shocked how culturally deprived the entire country feels, especially as the ‘leader of the free world’, where the majority of the inhabitants have seen none of the free world.
"I've never seen mountains..[ ] I've never seen snow."
😢
(Cries in Welsh)
About the bike paths: there are often bike paths along rivers and canals. There were often tow paths, where horses pulled river boats until the industrial revolution and motorized transport on water. There are a lot of those.
If someone told me that there is a Statistic in the UK that over half of the population uses a train at least once a month it wouldn't surprise me at all.
To be fair at 3:25 when he talks about the areas of the US which don’t have any rail services, from my limited knowledge of the US they are the places where not many people live like Montana and the Dakotas or Nevada. Why would you want loads of rail there?
And yes he was including Russia when you asked. At least the European part of Russia west of The Ural Mountains
Hi Mike and Jess, in response to Jess saying how nice it would be to ride a bike in the countryside, here in the UK there were many unproductive rail tracks that were closed down many years ago but in more recent times many of these have now been converted into cycle ways. Resulting in a route whereby you can cycle through the countryside and, being an ex rail track you have the bonus that it is all on level ground i.e. no hills. There are occasions where a bridge over a road has been removed but you simply come down to the road, cross, and go back up to continue your journey again. Many families partake of this pleasure as a family as the terrain is so easy that kids of all ages can cope with it.
Please react to videos by Not Just Bikes. He is an American in The Netherlands
I live in northern Europe. In the summer I bike to work ~20 minutes. In the winter I walk ~50 mins. I have never owned a car. I do have a drivers licence as it's convenient sometimes to borrow or rent a car when you need it but day to day I don't feel I need it compared to the cost of having one (payments, insurance, gas, inspections and whatnot)
Yes family is most important,but you both have to live your lives and one day you will regret not moving to Europe.
I live in a small city in Romania and I use my car everyday, but whenever I go to the capital, I use the subway, the bus or the tram because it's easier for us to get around. We have special bus lanes and special bike lanes so there is no incentive to get a car.
17:17 you don’t need a passport to travel to Schengen couhtries, that’s the whole point. The only (now former) Schengen country where i ever had to show some form of ID was UK.
Most of times you don’t need an ID even to travel between Schengen and non-Schengen (i’ve never been asked any ID to travel between Italy and Switzerland, or Croatia).
When I lived in Gainesville (1998-2001) I drove up to Jacksonville up the 301, we went on a trolley ride. It only held about 20 people, they’re small, but it was fun! ❤❤️👍🇬🇧
Very interesting to learn about these differences. I live in Stockholm and have never in my life had a job I couldn’t either walk or bike to. I do own a car to get to my summer house but never use it in the city. Usually walking or biking or public transport (bus, subway, train).
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The map showing the European rail network was truly correct. There are far more numerous lines both in Britain and Europe than was potrayed. Many areas and towns in the UK are well connected to the national rail system.
I've been to both Knoxville and Jacksonville and only remember seeing a few buses in each city.